Okey Sampson, Aba
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate for Abia in the March 2 election, Dr. Uche Ogah, has promised to take the state out of its present comatose and stagnant state, if elected governor.
Ogah, who stated this at Obioha, in Ukwa East Local Government, in continuation of his campaign tour of the state, noted that Abia has failed in all indices, and stressed that there is hope for the state if he becomes governor.
The APC governorship candidate reminded the crowd who trooped out to receive him that no president has ever given bailout funds to states in the history of the country, except President Muhammadu Buhari.
He regretted that the bailout given to Abia was misused, resulting in non-payment of workers’ salary and pensions as well as general lack of infrastructure in the state.
Ogah promised to adress the situation and bring the state back to reckoning if he is elected governor and urged the people of the state not to make the mistake they made in 2015 by voting for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
He urged Abians, and Ndigbo in general, to vote for Buhari, and said that apart from the numerous projects the present administration has commenced in the South East, re-electing the president would make it easy for an Igbo man to have a shot at the presidency in 2023.
On his part, the party’s Abia South senatorial district candidate, Chief Marc Wabara, expressed happiness that the change which did not come to Abia in 2015; is already in the air in the state, this time around.
“Our people have suffered under the mis-rule of the PDP for the past 20 years, it is gratifying that they have embraced the change and I am assuring you that the change which eluded the state in 2015 is already in the air now”, he assured.
Ogah’s running mate, Hon. Martins Azubuike, who expressed worry over the burning of the INEC office at Isiala Ngwa South, last week, by thugs, warned PDP against causing violence in the state during and after the polls.